Finance committee  Certainly, as local financial institutions, there are a lot of relationships that are being established or that have been established with native communities. There is a keen interest among credit unions that operate geographically adjacent to native reserves to bring those into

Finance committee  There is no formal linkage, but we certainly have communication with those specialized financial institutions to see how we might partner.

Finance committee  Yes, I'd be happy to. We look forward to the coming into force of the legislation. It's not in force yet, so that final step will need to happen before credit unions can step forward and express an interest or actually move ahead with that option. It is one option. We do not f

Finance committee  That's a pretty broad question. Of course, I am representing credit unions and not necessarily the broader co-op sector. We can always do with more. We appreciate that there are supports in place. There are sympathetic government officials who assist us all the time when we have

Finance committee  Absolutely. We're quite supportive of the direction of the action plan. We really want the government to walk the talk and really make sure that those very firm principles result in some action that would recognize small business, small financial institutions, and the regulatory

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for inviting Canada's credit unions to be part of the annual pre-budget consultations. We've appeared before this committee in the past and appreciate the continuing excellent relationship we have with committee members and indeed with all parliamentarian

Information & Ethics committee  I'm in the same boat. I don't have knowledge of that.

Information & Ethics committee  Specifically to your question about the Income Tax Act definition, it probably doesn't work well enough in this instance. In the credit union system we have a large number of players with very small shareholder interests, so therefore the concept of associated corporations and re

Information & Ethics committee  I'll begin. Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for this invitation to come before the committee today to discuss the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. My name is Gary Rogers. I'm vice-president, financial policy, with Credit U